On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:30:53 +0200, bearophile <bearophileh...@lycos.com>
wrote:
Vladimir Panteleev:
I think we have a misunderstanding, then? Who ensures that the modules
"just work"? If someone breaks something, are they thrown out of The
Holy
Repository?
There is no single solution to such problems. It's a matter of creating
rules and lot of work to enforce them as years pass.
If you talk about Holy things you are pushing this discussion toward a
stupid direction.
If a single entity controls the inclusion of submissions into an important
set, then there will inevitably be conflicts. Also I still have no idea
what you meant when you said that Python, Ruby and Perl do it. AFAIK their
repositories are open and anyone can submit their project.
I'm curious (not arguing), can you provide examples? I can't think of
any drastic
improvements to the package system.
I was talking about fixing bugs, improving strength, maybe later adding
super-packages, and generally taking a good look at the literature about
the damn ML-style module systems and their theory.
I meant examples of why this is useful for D. (Why are you damning the
ML-style module systems?)
--
Best regards,
Vladimir mailto:vladi...@thecybershadow.net
